"His prime minister, Jean-Max Bellerive, tells CNN: "I believe we are well over 100,000," while leading senator Youri Latortue tells The Associated Press that 500,000 could be dead. Both admit they have no way of knowing."

This would be the 4th largest natural disaster to ever strike the planet.

In terms of human casualties, I'm sure that's true. I was just pointing out that the *planet* has been through much worse. It's a massive and tragic loss of human life, but it's no Ordovician extinction.

In terms of human casualties, I'm sure that's true. I was just pointing out that the *planet* has been through much worse. It's a massive and tragic loss of human life, but it's no Ordovician extinction.

A guy I know, a home inspector and member of The Red Cross, got a call to duty. He was asked to come down and do some damage assessment. He is going to do it. Fortunately, he has enough of a nest egg set aside to be able to go without pay for a short period of time. He is a really good man for doing it too.

Earthquakes seem to effect different areas in different ways depending on the topsoil. A while back there was a show explaining how an earthquake hit Alaska years back... the topsoil along with the local water level basically created a mud cake. Living in Michigan and considering that its topsoil comprises of a large amount of sand, it makes me wonder what would happen here... probably the entire state would become a soupy mud cake causing more people and structures to become submerged and drown... depending on the size and length of the quake I suppose.

Earthquakes seem to effect different areas in different ways depending on the topsoil.

Earthquakes are freakywhat if some more tectonic shifts snapped off a couple more quakes next week...one right off the coast of China, the other offshore but spawning a massive tsunami that thrashes Miami...freaky.